Description

In the second edition of this fascinating book an international team of experts have been brought together to explore all major areas of fish learning, including:

Foraging skills

Predator recognition

Social organisation and learning

Welfare and pain

Three new chapters covering fish personality, lateralisation, and fish cognition and fish welfare, have been added to this fully revised and expanded second edition.

Fish Cognition and Behavior, Second Edition contains essential information for all fish biologists and animal behaviorists and contains much new information of commercial importance for fisheries managers and aquaculture personnel. Libraries in all universities and research establishments where biological sciences, fisheries and aquaculture are studied and taught will find it an important addition to their shelves.

About the Author

Culum Brown is at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Kevin Laland is at the Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, UK.

Jens Krause is at the Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, and also at Humboldt University, both in Berlin, Germany.

Table of contents

Preface and Acknowledgements.

Series Foreword.

List of Contributors.

1 Fish Cognition and Behaviour(Brown, Laland and Krause).

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Contents of this book.

References.

2 Learning of Foraging Skills by Fish(Warburton and Hughes).

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Some factors affecting the learning process.

2.2.1 Reinforcement.

2.2.2 Drive.

2.2.3 Stimulus attractiveness.

2.2.4 Exploration and sampling.

2.2.5 Attention and simple association.

2.2.6 Cognition.

2.2.7 Memory systems and skill transfer.

2.3 Patch use and probability matching.

2.4 Performance.

2.5 Tracking environmental variation.

2.6 Competition.

2.7 Learning and fish feeding: some applications.

2.8 Conclusions.

Acknowledgements.

References.

3 Learned Defences and Counterdefences in Predator–Prey Interactions(Kelley and Magurran).

16.2.2.5 Behaviour after escaping the gear and long-term consequences.

16.2.3 Abundance estimation.

16.3 Aquaculture.

16.3.1 Ontogeny.

16.3.2 Habituation, conditioning and anticipation.

16.3.3 Pavlovian learning – delay and trace conditioning.

16.3.4 Potential use of reward conditioning in aquaculture.

16.3.5 Operant learning.

16.3.6 Individual decisions and collective behaviour.

16.4 Stock enhancement and sea-ranching.

16.5 Escapees from aquaculture .

16.6 Capture-based aquaculture.

16.7 Conclusions and perspectives.

Acknowledgements.

References.

17 Cognition and Welfare(Sneddon).

17.1 Introduction.

17.1.1 Fish welfare.

17.1.2 Preference and avoidance testing.

17.1.3 Behavioural flexibility and intraspecific variation.

17.2 What is welfare?

17.2.1 Sentience and consciousness.

17.2.2 Cognition and welfare.

17.3 What fishes want.

17.3.1 Preference tests.

17.3.1.1 Physical habitat.

17.3.1.2 Breeding.

17.3.1.3 Diet.

17.3.1.4 Social interactions.

17.4 What fishes do not want.

17.5 Pain and fear in fish.

17.6 Personality in fish.

17.7 Wider implications for the use of fish.

17.7.1 Aquaculture.

17.7.2 Fisheries.

17.7.3 Recreational fishing.

17.7.4 Research.

17.7.5 Companion fish.

17.8 Conclusion.

Acknowledgements.

References.

Species List.

Index.

Reviews

“With the inclusion of new aspects and the update of the content of the first edition this book is a must for all researchers in the field of fish behaviour and interaction.” (Bulletin of Fish Biology, 1 October 2011)